28 Christmas Gifts for 10-Year-Old Boys

Plugged into a laptop, Makey Makey can turn a row of bananas into piano keys he plays with a tap.

Holiday visits with cousins get a quick contest from the pindaloo ball skill game, labeled Age 9+.

On a free Saturday at the kitchen table, a fairground fan raises his own amusement park from a heap of K'NEX.

A boy who pulls things apart to see inside gets The Crunchinator, a CrunchLabs crusher toy.

Wrong guesses show up fast in Gravity Maze, which suits a kid who likes to plan and check his work.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, a Nintendo Switch 2 game, is a solo sci-fi adventure in which he plays as the bounty hunter Samus.

A curious boy who pockets feathers and leaves gets a National Geographic microscope to inspect them.

Snap Circuits turns the radio from a gadget he wonders about into one he built.

Since he rates every fair ride by its drop, give him the job of designing one.

Robot movies make mechanical hands look like magic.

Smartivity's robotic gripper toy fits a curious kid who pauses every factory video to see how the metal arms grab and lift.

This GAN speed cube goes to a boy who watches solvers online and wants his own.

Each hand of Lost Cities puts a real choice in front of him: commit to an expedition and hope it pays off, or cut his losses and take a safer trail.

If the boy on your list keeps score against his parents in everything, Sorry! gives him a fair shot at beating them.

If the boy on your list likes to outthink whoever sits across from him, Connect 4 Strategy gives him that duel.

This Beyblade X battle set brings head-to-head spinning top matches to a boy with a competitive streak.

Real tools, a motor and working lights go into the MECCANO supercar he builds first, and it is only one of 25 models in this box.

Games on the family PC get a keyboard of his own with the SteelSeries Apex 3, so he no longer plays on the same plain one everybody else types on.

Altitude hold keeps this drone steady at one height, so a first-time pilot can watch the live camera view while he learns the controls.

When the boy you are buying for draws trail routes in his notebook, a sighting compass lets him plot the way himself.

Go long, and the Nerf Vortex Aero Howler whistles all the way to the catch, so the friend running the route can hear it coming.

The Flybar Master pogo stick gives an energetic boy a bouncing challenge right on the driveway.

The Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists turns holiday kitchen time into experiments for a ten-year-old.

Who Was Albert Einstein? brings a famous scientist's life story to a ten-year-old with big questions.

A ten-year-old ready for a longer read can unwrap The Last Kids on Earth this Christmas.

Holes by Louis Sachar makes a Christmas gift for a boy reading novels on his own.